Beating-out machine.



No. 659,398. Patented Oct. 9, I900. B. S. JOHNSON &J. C. CUTCHEON.

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MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

TO THE KLIMAX LEVELLER COMPANY, OF.

B-EATlNG-OUT MACHINE;

$PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,398, dated October 9, 1900. Application filed June 10, 1897. Serial No. 6401.1.3l. 1N0 model.)

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES S. JOHNSON,

of Lynn, and JAMES (l-CUTCHEON, of Swampprovements in Beating- Out Machines, of

which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in of boots and shoes, and has for its object to prod uce certain novel and useful featu'res ofconstruction and operation thereof, all of which will behereinafter more fully pointed [5 out. 7

and shoes as heretofore constructed haveineluded a type or class wherein the work of beating out-or leveling has been accomplished by causing a form to roll under the necessary pressure over a suitable last carrying the shoe. A machine of this class has been largely introduced and is now extensively used, manufactured under Letters Patent No.

296,486 to S. D. Tripp.

Our present invention relates, generally speaking, to this type of leveler; and its object is to provide an improved construction whereby the work is better done and also whereby shoes lasted upon a wooden last may be leveled thereon instead of being transferred to an iron last, which has thus far generally been found necessary with the Tripp machine.

ters Patent referred to as well as in the machine shown in earlier Letters Patent No. 96,638 to the same inventor the leveling operation has been accomplished by mounting the shoe-supporting device and the form, respectively, each upon an arm extending radially from a center,appropriate mechanism being provided to cause these two arms to move si multaneously around their respective centers through an are sufficient in length to cause all portions of the sole successively to pass between and be acted upon by the opposed surfaces of the shoe-support and the form, one orthe other of which, preferably the during the leveling operation.

Machines for beating out or leveling boot-s In the Tripp machine patented in the Letform, is spriug-backed,the com pression of this spring-backing giving the necessary pressure In the use of this. type of 'machine, however, there exists in practice a tendency of the work to slip, which in some classes of work is injurious.

Again, as above stated, it has not heretofore been found practicable to use a wooden last 7 [in machines of this character. to machines for beating outor leveling the soles In carrying out ourpresent improvement (we have substituted for the arc motion of both form and shoe-support an arc motion of the form alone, coupled with a rectilinear reciprocatingnlotion of the shoe-support and the axis of the form with respect to each other.

We will now proceed to describe our preferred embodiment of this improvement.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation ofa preferred form of our improved leveling-machine. Fig. '2 is a section thereof,

.taken on line 0050 in Fig. 3; and Fig. 3 is a front view of the same parts. In the drawings, A represents the shoesupport, which may be either the iron last shown in Fig. 1 or a wooden last mounted I upon a suitable jack, as indicated in Fig. 2. B-is the form, which is arranged to move in an are around a shaft O, to which it is detachably secured. After a shoe has been placed upon the support A the leveling op eration is performed by causingthe form B to turn upon its shaft 0, while atthe same time said shaft 0 is reciprocated in a straight line directly above the support A, the result of this being that the form passes over the sole of the shoe with a rolling pressure from one end of the said shoe to the other, which operation may be reversed and also be repeated as many times as may be desired until the shoe is sufficiently beaten out or leveled. The face of the form B is of course molded to correspond to the contour which is to be given, to the shoe-sole, and the machine is preferably so arranged that when the level- 'ing operation ceases the working face of the form shall be up or toward the operator, the form being at the inner end of its stroke and out of operative contact with the ,sole. The shoe-support is held against the form under a suitable pressure, which may be applied through a spring-backing D, arranged b0- neath the shoe-support and preferably made of rubber. The shaft C and the form B, which it carries, are held against the upward pressure exerted by the shoe-support by means such as a double track C C, secured to the framework of the machine, against the under edge of which bear two wheels or rollers C mounted to turn on said shaft C.

The rolling motion which accomplishes the leveling operation may be effected by any suitable mechanism, our preferred construction being that shown in the drawings, in which the shaft C is supported on a carriage formed of two pinions E, meshing in racks F, attached to the frame G, which formsthe upper part of the framework of the machine. lhe to-and-fro motion is imparted to the carriage and form by mechanism, such as the crank H and connecting-rod I, extending from an operating-shaft K and connected to the shaft G, as shown. Power is imparted to the crank-shaft by the belt-wheel L through suitable intermediate gearing. We consider it to be obvious that the relative motions of the form B and support A produced by the above-described mechanism may also be produced if the shaft 0 be held in stationary bearings and the rack F be connected to the shoe-support and reciprocated by mechanism similar to that shown for reciprocating the shaft C. v

The shoe-support A is mounted upon a suitable table M, which is preferably adapted to slide in and out on the framework of the ma-- chane, so that it may be drawn forward for removing and replacing the work. Ihis inand-out motion is the familiar removal motion for beating-out machines and is not to be confounded with the in-and-ont or sliding motion above described, which may be given to the shoe-support instead of to the form.

We have shown and described ourimprovment as embodied in a single-section machinethat is to say, in connection with but one working lastand form. We believe it to be obvious, however, that the construction may be repeated in a common frame, but each section being independent in its operation, thereby converting the ma'chineinto a gangmachine, so called. Furthermore, two lasts and two forms may be employed and may be duplexed after the manner of the duplex direct-pressure beating-out machine shown in Letters Patent No. 384,893.

\Ve further believe it to be obvious that the throw-out of the work may be by a suitable attachment to the machine performed automatically in amanner well known in the art and therefore not. deemed necessary to describe more fully here.

As the height of the work-support relative to the form may require adjustment, We employ for this purpose the vertical adjustment device shown in United States Letters Patent No. 230,187 to J. B. Johnson or other suitable adjusting mechanism.

\Ve claim as our invention-- 1. In a leveling-machine, in combination, a shoe-support, a form arranged to be moved in the arc of a circle, and means for simultaneously so moving the form and producing a rectilinear reciprocating motion between the axis of the said form and the shoe-support with respect to each other, for the purpose set forth.

2. In aleveling-machine, in combination, a stationaryshoe-support, a form arranged to have a rolling motion along the surface of the sole of the shoe upon said support, and means for imparting such rolling motion to the said form, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a leveling-machine, in combination, a stationary shoe-support, a form mounted on a shaft, a carriage in which said shaft is mounted, and means for simultaneously reciprocating the carriage and turning the form through the arc of a circle, for the purpose set forth.

4. In a leveling-machine, in combination, a spring-backed shoe-support, a form mounted on a shaft, gears E in which the said shaft is mounted and forming a carriage therefor, stationary racks in mesh with the said gears, and means for reciprocating the said carriage, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names this 29th day of May, 1897.

CHARLES S. JOHNSON. JAMES C. CUTOHEON.

\Vitnesses:

FLORENCE M. LULL, ELLA A. Dow. 

